There is no doubt that the narcotic medications work on acute and chronic pain for patients who need them. Then the drugs started getting the limelight. People who were prescribed them and misused the drugs causing them to become “addicted” … or they were dispensed and the people sold them illegally on the street, or they were stolen from patients and sold on the street and the list goes on. Doctors had their knuckles rapped and some even lost their jobs over the misuse and over prescribing of these narcotic drugs. The problem now… people who can really benefit from the use of narcotic pain medications are denied them because many doctors refuse to prescribe them. Even people with no history of drug or alcohol abuse and with lengthy histories of chronic pain who have tried many types of medication without relief or limited relief can not get narcotic type of drug (even to try). If the drugs are taken AS PRESCRIBED under the care and watchful eye of a physician, patients would be no more addicted to them than people with depression who need anti depressants for life or to a diabetic needing insulin or a person suffering with another type of chronic ailment needing medication that can help them with their quality of life. The people who abused the drugs have had a serious impact on people who can benefit from the drugs. Because of the abusers, people with legitimate pain issues find it impossible or near impossible to get prescribed a narcotic medication that will work on their pain. Unless they can find the drugs on the street and buy them illegally… they are left suffering. This is truly wrong. The narcotic drugs are relatively inexpensive to purchase at the pharmacy compared to other pain medications that have varying degrees of success in the treatment of pain… AND the other drugs are always more expensive. Thanks to the drug addicts that ruined it for people with genuine pain problems. This situation needs to be addressed and doctors need to really start addressing the problem of pain management and help people with legitimate, documented chronic pain. —Suffering Daily
This article appears in Oct 3-9, 2013.
Try Cape Breton?
You may believe that you possess a strong will, OB, but The Captain’s seen WWII veterans succumb to the control of of a simple pill.
Men who stared death in the eye
Defeated by congealed powder
Do no underestimate the power of some of these prescription drugs.
Do they work? Usually. Are they addictive? Proven.
Good Luck
Start smoking weed…best medication on the planet.
I don’t believe this is indeed the case. In fact, I’ve had dilaudid prescribed to me many times, for pain.
Indeed, doctors are being more diligent about to whom they are prescribing these drugs. And addicts are experiencing difficulties getting their own prescriptions for it. Their doctors are now recognizing their patients are addicted and not in need of such medications.
In fact, it’s the drug addicts themselves that complain they can’t get these drugs for their “genuine pain problems”….
After I had surgery, my surgeon prescribed injectable dilaudid and put on the order to dispense whenever requested. I was sent home with a prescription for codeine and had one of the pills and the rest sat in the cupboard for a year before I flushed them.
My dad was given dilaudid for his ankle pain after he had his surgery for a bone infection. He also has severe nerve pain and offered narcotics for it, to which he declined. He flushed the dilaudid the hospital gave him after he got home in favour of the tylenol 3 they also gave him. This was after being on dilaudid for 3 months. He took the t-3s for a week and went down to extra strength otc tylenol then nothing. For his nerve pain he takes lyrica, which isn’t a narcotic.
Dad and I have addctive personalities and we both managed fine in the face of narcotics. I don’t believe it’s THAT easy to become addicted for everyone. Especially those who use it as intended. And to that affect, neither of us have had problems getting these drugs from our docs.
Sorry but as a chronic pain sufferer, addicts are greedy cunts.
Yeah whatever. It’s a “disease”… sure sure… – but it’s not the same as spinal arthritis that puts you in bed upwards of four months a year and makes it impossible to take a shit without help. Sorry. It’s just not the same.
And you want to know something else? I STOPPED taking narcotics in every case except extreme pain (ie: hallucinating from pain – and yes. It can happen) I didn’t want to become a statistic who started off medicating pain and wound up an addict. I owe myself and others better than that.
Since then I’ve discovered alternative therapies that work for me.
All of you who have no idea what pain is will vote this down. I couldn’t give less of a flying fuck. You’ll know someday when you’re old and pissing yourselves.
People don’t like to hear this. But there is the pain of strength and the pain of weakness. There are those who inspire because they fail over and over. And there are those who inspire because they refuse to lie down and die.
I didn’t disintegrate into a life with arthritis because I couldn’t cope with life. It found me. I didn’t seek it out. I didn’t become riddled with pain because i was too angsty to cope with life. I became riddled with pain because of a marker on one of my genes.
I fucking LOVE drugs. Do you know how easy it would be for me to just give up and become a drug addict or alcoholic? Don’t tell me I don’t understand. I DO understand. I just refuse to lose at life. I flat out REFUSE to allow this to own me. I work at living life despite how fucked up it can be for me.
I rage against the dying of the light or some shit like that.
Look in the mirror and admit what you are. If you have a drug problem, whether legitimately due to being overprescribed drugs or because you have zero coping skills, force yourself to see it.
And do something about your problems. Nobody else is required to give a flying fuck.
Thank you op. *deep breath* It feels good to talk about this.
I don’t know what’s wrong with you op. But sometimes moving is better than staying still. When you have pain, it’s almost impossible to move. But if you CAN move, I recommend it. Every try tai chi? (Beware of yoga! it’s a stiffness exercise and not recommended for people with joint or bone pain)
I recommend tai chi. And swimming. Buoyancy takes the pressure off of a strained body and lets you exercise without all that gravity that you’re normally experiencing.
I have 2 sisters, who at the time had back issues as well as an operation on her leg was prescribed dilaudid for relief of pain….needless to say that was years ago and are now addicted to it. I’m not sure if the pain is still there to warrant still taking dilaudid…but I know drug dependency when I see it. If I know they have run out…I won’t answer when they call. Weed, when it’s around….makes me forget I have pain without the addiction associated with prescription drugs.
Oh, people, please remember DO NOT FLUSH or discard your unwanted meds. They will end up in our drinking water, or in the ocean, causing fishies to grow breasts!
Take them back to a pharmacy to be disposed of properly.
Just a friendly Public Service Reminder 🙂
Drugs aren’t the answer, Sport. They’re a distraction. They cover up the problem while creating another. Its best that you use some pain management techniques to control your pain before ruining your life with a promise from the drug companies (legally sanctioned and protected drug dealers) to make your life “pain free”. You do know that opioids are basically synthetic heroin, don’t you OB? I have friends that have destroyed their lives with that shit, and that’s no lie. The valley is absolutely full of that shit.
News 95.7 has a bit called “House Calls” on Wednesdays at 10:00am, and the doctors name is Dr. John Gillis. He runs a pain management clinic and may be able to point you in the direction for drug free relief. Can’t hurt to ask.
PK, you do realize that the human body metabolizes codeine into morphine, right? You may as well be taking dilaudid.
I call BS. If there was ever a study designed to profile the chronic condition vs drug of choice, then we would see that the narcotics users take their doses more frequently and without skipping them. To me, this suggests that they are using their chronic condition to mask a substance abuse problem.
I found I didn’t really need it, to be honest, SHITTY.
I guess I have a high pain tolerance, because I was up and around three days after my abdomen was sliced (I went to the mall, by myself, on the bus).
I cracked a tooth three weeks ago and when it was extracted, I didn’t bother taking any pain killers. The only pain I can’t tolerate is headache pain (and toothache pain OMG cracking a tooth hurts… And I went a week before getting it looked at).
I love the strength and no nonsense attitude so many of you bitchers have. Shitty things happen but you have a choice to go either way and fight threw or lay down n make excuses. Also I have a 2 year old who’s passed kidney stones and have multiple surgeries and he gets nothing but Tylenol for pain most of the time (except while he’s hospitalized). And hes the happiest kid I know! And the strongest.
Mama bear’s little one is my little hero!
So much respect for your posts, Batshit. I understand what youre going through, really. I have only left my house probably 20 times this year tops for groceries, doctor visits, and the occasional family or friend visitation. I am on loads of pills, I tried alternatives for years before I gave in (I do not like most medications due to their addictive potential and side effects.) The pain is a lot more managed now but I am always wary. I guess it has been long enough now that I think I can say Im not going to become an addict.
Best part about the painkillers is being able to sleep again.
Addicts fucking suck as they make it harder for people like us. I didnt have trouble because of my long ass history but I have known other chronic sufferers who have.
Batshit your a tough cookie with a fantastic attitude.
I find if I don’t go for a walk everyday my pain becomes worse.I compare it to leaving a bicycle sit outside in bad weather too long, the chain and gears rust and eventually cease up. Besides exercise clears the cobwebs out of the ole’ noggin’ and keeps the ‘Black Dogs’ of depression at bay.
Get off the narcs a while. Nobody needs to be on them for life. Narcotics like oxycottan and morphine will kill you. Smoking a joint would be much better for you. Face it your an addict and the doctor is on to your fakin’ (fibromyalgia) Everybody knows that “disease” is a crock of shit. Get wit da sufferin’… LIFE is pain!
…. I hope you’re just trolling and aren’t actually that cruel, no_fool. (“Face it your an addict and the doctor is on to your fakin’ (fibromyalgia) Everybody knows that “disease” is a crock of shit. Get wit da sufferin’… LIFE is pain!”) Fibro is very real, though not as understood as other diseases. And it isn’t something you can fake, there are many physical signs of fibro. It isn’t something you can just ‘suffer’ through and marijuana itself wouldn’t be enough. You should really educate yourself before you flap your lips everywhere. Invisible disease sufferers do not need people with your attitude around when they’re just trying to get through a day. Life is pain? I guarantee you haven’t experienced any true pain for you to be talking so callously.
I won’t feed the trolls any more than this, won’t be visiting this thread again; I just find that really fucking sad. I’m going to go call my grandmother who has suffered from fibro for many years now, tell her I love her and that I hope she has a good day. Spreading positivity to those who are suffering is much more valuable than the nonsensical word vomit you spew.
Nanny needs some pot…